Sizzle 1, steak 0

By Jeff Foust on 2007 November 10 at 7:56 am ET

There’s no shortage of potential financial concerns at NASA that are worth of the attention of the media, from whether the agency’s budget is sufficient to handle all of its projects to worries about cost and schedule overruns on various programs to general financial management concerns. But those are all dry, boring steak to the […]

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Just stopping by to say hi

By Jeff Foust on 2007 November 9 at 6:32 am ET

President Bush happened to be in the neighborhood, it seems, so he decided to greet the STS-120 crew upon their return to Houston on Thursday. Bush met with the astronauts and their families at Ellington Field upon their arrival there, one day after the astronauts returned to Earth on the shuttle Discovery. According to the […]

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The NSS joins the “Save Mars” bandwagon

By Jeff Foust on 2007 November 7 at 7:29 am ET

Since this summer the Mars Society has battled language in the House version of the appropriations bill that prohibits NASA from spending money on projects exclusively intended for human Mars exploration. Now, as conferees prepare to work out differences between the House bill and its Senate version (which lacks the offending provision), the NSS is […]

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Rescheduled House NEO hearing

By Jeff Foust on 2007 November 1 at 7:21 am ET

The House Science Committee’s space subcommittee hearing on NASA’s near Earth object (NEO) study that was scheduled for last month but postponed because of the funeral for Rep. Jo Ann Davis is still planned to take place next Thursday, the 8th, at 10 am. The list of speakers remains pretty much the same:

Dr. James […]

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